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In The News
- Better With Age: Plan to abolish spousal refusal puts home care at risk
- Senior Moment or Something Worse? Yes/No Test May Tell
- Two Studies Hint at How Alzheimer’s Might Spread
- Mouse Study Suggests Alzheimer's Spreads Through Brain Like an Infection
- Same Genes Key to Early & Late-Onset Alzheimer's
- Helping Seniors With Pain: New GSA Resources
- Signs of Alzheimer’s May Show Up Years Before Symptoms
- Alzheimer'S-Linked Brain Plaques May Affect Memory in Healthy People
- As states cut Medicaid funds, nursing home group proposes bad debt fix
- Men at Higher Risk for Mental Decline That Precedes Alzheimer's
- Steady Diet of Mental Stimulation Might Reduce Alzheimer's Risk
- Major Public Health Campaign Called For By Stanford Dean To Fight Epidemic Of Unnecessary Suffering
- After Hip Fracture, Coexisting Medical Conditions Increase Treatment Costs And Lengthen Hospitalization
- A New Angle On Tennis Injuries Offered By Markerless Motion Capture
- Managing Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain With Muscle Relaxants And Neuromodulators
Latest Blog Posts
- Long Surgeries Necessitate Better Therapeutic Surfaces for Patient Skin Integrity - A recent study in the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Journal shows that patients can develop pressure ulcers when a surgery lasts more than three hours. How the patient is positioned, the table surface, and skin integrity all play … Continue reading
- Big Spike in Knee Surgeries Calls for Compression Therapy Devices to Lessen Risk of Blood Clots - New statistics show a big increase in knee replacement surgery since the late 1990s. From 1997 to 2009, knee surgery increased for women ages 45 to 64 by 157 percent and men in the same range by 144 percent. The … Continue reading
- It takes a Virtual Patient to Make a Healthy Village - So now there’s a new, safer way to test medical procedures by creating “virtual patients”, computerized realistic-looking models that are “serviced” by medical devices and procedures that can’t be tested in “vulnerable” patients, such as pregnant women. Dr. X. George … Continue reading
- Hire a Manager for your Depression! - Is your holiday season this year going to be merry? According to an article published by The Wall Street Journal the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that, “close to 8% of people 50 and older are report current … Continue reading
- Old Age or B12? - A mind blowing discovery recently printed in the New York Times by Jane E. Brody, indicates that a B12 deficiency can show similar symptoms to someone with Alzheimer’s. She shares an evocative story of Mrs. Katz, who was diagnosed with … Continue reading
